The TVAD Research Group, based in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire, researches relationships between text, narrative and image. We publish books, journal articles, host a double-blind peer-reviewed journal, Writing Visual Culture (previously Working Papers on Design) and host events including international conferences.

Monday, 27 August 2012

TVAD's Grace Lees-Maffei and Dr Daniel J. Huppatz (Swinburne University
of Technology, Melbourne, Australia) are to give a paper at the 8th conference of the The International Committee for Design History and Design Studies (ICDHS) in São Paulo (Brazil), 3rd-6th September 2012. The conference theme is Design Frontiers: territories, concepts, technologies.

Abstract:

'Design History: From Service Subject to Discrete Discipline'

Design
history is undergoing an identifiable shift from a relatively marginal and
insecure position as a service provider operating within design education, to a
recognizable and independent research discipline. This paper examines both the
relationship between the practice and purpose of design history within design
education as it is taught and researched in various countries, as well as the
subject’s emerging status as an independent discipline.